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Re: extracting file with xz file tar.....

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Gene Heskett (2018-01-25):
> It would help to run the correct unpacker. xz is relatively new, and the 
> command is: xz -d packagename.xz. If its a tarball, thats what you'll 
> get back.  If it an image for an sd card, that's what you will get back.
> 
> running tar xf is asking tar to do something it cannot do, at least not 
> yet.
> 
> man xz can be quite educational ;-)

The 1990's are calling, they want their man pages back.

Even in the 1990's, no competent Unix user would never unpack an archive
as a file, they would use pipelines. And nowadays, tar know how to do
that all by itself, including detecting the archive type.

Regards,

-- 
  Nicolas George

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extracting file with xz file tar..... Michael Fothergill <michael.fothergill@gmail.com> - 2018-01-25 21:40 +0100
  Re: extracting file with xz file tar..... Nicolas George <george@nsup.org> - 2018-01-25 21:50 +0100
  Re: extracting file with xz file tar..... Gene Heskett <gheskett@shentel.net> - 2018-01-25 21:50 +0100
    Re: extracting file with xz file tar..... Roberto C. Sánchez <roberto@debian.org> - 2018-01-25 22:00 +0100
    Re: extracting file with xz file tar..... Greg Wooledge <wooledg@eeg.ccf.org> - 2018-01-25 22:00 +0100
    Re: extracting file with xz file tar..... Brian <ad44@cityscape.co.uk> - 2018-01-25 22:00 +0100
      Re: extracting file with xz file tar..... Gene Heskett <gheskett@shentel.net> - 2018-01-26 02:00 +0100
        Re: extracting file with xz file tar..... David Wright <deblis@lionunicorn.co.uk> - 2018-01-26 03:50 +0100
          Re: extracting file with xz file tar..... Gene Heskett <gheskett@shentel.net> - 2018-01-26 08:50 +0100
          Re: extracting file with xz file tar..... Curt <curty@free.fr> - 2018-01-26 12:00 +0100
            Re: extracting file with xz file tar..... rhkramer@gmail.com - 2018-01-26 17:30 +0100
              Re: extracting file with xz file tar..... Curt <curty@free.fr> - 2018-01-26 17:40 +0100
        Re: extracting file with xz file tar..... Curt <curty@free.fr> - 2018-01-26 11:00 +0100
          Re: extracting file with xz file tar..... Gene Heskett <gheskett@shentel.net> - 2018-01-26 11:40 +0100
      Re: extracting file with xz file tar..... Charlie S <taoquester@gmail.com> - 2018-01-26 07:10 +0100
        Re: extracting file with xz file tar..... Gene Heskett <gheskett@shentel.net> - 2018-01-26 09:00 +0100
  Re: extracting file with xz file tar..... Michael Lange <klappnase@freenet.de> - 2018-01-25 22:10 +0100
    Re: extracting file with xz file tar..... Roberto C. Sánchez <roberto@debian.org> - 2018-01-25 22:20 +0100
  Re: extracting file with xz file tar..... Dominique Dumont <dod38fr@gmail.com> - 2018-01-26 11:10 +0100

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